You guys post pictures of immaculate shops, that I don't think I could have unless I spent more time cleaning than working in it. When i was a kid, my dad would take me to visit a turning shop where the guy made all kinds of things, but what impressed me, is he made bats for baseball players. He had an old gas engine that powered the ceiling pulleys and then belts hung down to run the lathes. When we visited, I got the job of cleaning out shavings from around a lathe that was not being used. Sometimes the shavings would be knee deep. We took a big scoop shovel and threw them out the back door, which was about six feet above the ground. Folks would stop and take the shavings for gardens and whatever. When we got down to the floor, the owner would gruffly say that it was clean enough. And then he used an air compressor to blow the rest of the dust out the back door. His shop was never as pristine as the pictures posted here. Right now I have a lathe in the pole barn with a pile of shavings under it maybe 5 inches deep. I rake them up once a week. It has a dirt floor. My new lathe in is the basement, where I am setting up a shop, and I suppose I can look forward to lots of shop vac time. I will not be working in the basement until a dust collection system is set up. Then my barn lathe will be coming over to the basement as well. For some reason, it seems simpler to switch from one lathe to another for an operation than to be switching chucks and centers etc.